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I feel like you chose an odd group as your example since the progressive turnout group's whole thing is to spend the money themselves on direct advertising to v
by Spivak 4y ago
I feel like you chose an odd group as your example since the progressive turnout group's whole thing is to spend the money themselves on direct advertising to voters. Whether they deliver on the promise of "give us money and we'll get more people out to the polls" is one thing, but the mission at least is sound. Elections are won by getting more of your base out to vote because the US has such a low turnout.
Republicans aren't shy about it either which is why there's such a huge backlash against Gen Z voting more than expected for young people. My (red) state's reaction is to just outright make passing citizen initiated legislation impossible because democrats have been on a successful run of passing bills since it's one flat vote and not gerrymandered to hell.
- asnyder 4y agoMy experience with them is via their shady false donation-match mailings, as well as copy cat spam even after unsubscribing and asking to be removed. Further, looking into their payment records they have rarely contributed to anything outside themselves and have no documentation regarding any mailings or any actions related from their fundraising. Further their fundraising mailings specifically state numerous actions they'll undertake as well as distributions, to candidates, none of which seems to actually be happening despite what they claim in their fundraising. According to my rough napkin math, seems more than 80% of the funds raised goes to pay themselves. Those funds would be much better spent on the actual actions they profess versus inflated operations costs, and fundraising process on loop.